ZTE nubia Flip, Focus Pro, Neo 2, Music hands-on
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- 18 Mar 2024
Love the Community, 02 Mar 2024It would be better if ZTE makes a flagship version of the n... moreThe Nokia 8 is a durable phone indeed, especially given that it's 6000 series aluminium. I'm yet to see that durable body in any phone since then.
Agree with your comment, it's truly a dream phone indeed!
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- 02 Mar 2024
It would be better if ZTE makes a flagship version of the nubia Music. Same loudspeakers, one 3.5mm jack, one 4.4mm jack, and each jack is powered by ESS Sabre DACs (QuadDACs are so mid 2010's), more battery to fit the insides caused by the 4.4mm jack, running a TSMC made Snapdragon 8 (prioritizes to be more power efficient like 8 Gen 2), reasonable LTPO OLED at 90hz, Aluminum body (6000 series aluminum like Nokia 8 2017), USB-C 4.0, latest Bluetooth spec with all the aptX bells and whistles. All sold for $700 coz China is cheap.
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- 02 Mar 2024
DarlingYext, 02 Mar 2024"Last time I checked A54 had bezels a bit smaller than... moreThough the A51 is a paperweight with eMMC and Exynos 9611 for most variants, it looks significantly better than anything Samsung/Wingtech released during the past 4 years. And the fact that it's much lighter too!
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- 02 Mar 2024
ThunderCrackR, 02 Mar 2024Last time I checked A54 had bezels a bit smaller than these... more"Last time I checked A54 had bezels a bit smaller than these Focus and Neo from ZTE."
They might be smaller than the bezels on the Neo 2, but apart from the chin, overall the Focus Pro to my eyes has slimmer bezels.
"And that A54 is already at the limit of what's decently expected nowadays."
Really? How?
The significantly, and I mean a lot cheaper Redmi Note 13 4G has way thinner bezels, and as for the Focus Pro.. it's about half the price of the A54, has a bigger chin, but thinner side and top bezels.
Oh and.. the A51 from the front looks like a flagship compared to the A54.
https://m.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=12070&idPhone2=9963
Even the A52 models had slimmer bezels than the A54, but already worse than the A51.
https://m.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=9963&idPhone2=10641
The huge bezels are a CLEAR downgrade compared to the more than FOUR YEAR old A51. Are downgrades expected nowadays?
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- 02 Mar 2024
DarlingYext, 29 Feb 2024Galaxy A54.Last time I checked A54 had bezels a bit smaller than these Focus and Neo from ZTE. And that A54 is already at the limit of what's decently expected nowadays.
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- Where is the review
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- 01 Mar 2024
A month and still waiting for the Nubia z60ultra review.
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- 01 Mar 2024
Darth Caesium, 29 Feb 2024All of these are cool IMO. The ZTE nubia Music is perhaps t... moreNokia has significantly better software support compared to all other brands except Samsung (but Samsung's updates are mostly cumulative updates instead of software patches). It's highly likely you haven't used any Nokia phones. Even the low end C series is better in that regard.
Regarding the ZTE phones, they have worse software support compared to more popular brands. But their phones have comparatively more pleasant ringtones compared to all other brands, so there's that.
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- 01 Mar 2024
No thank you!
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- 01 Mar 2024
They might be cooking something with the "music" variant here. If they have a good headphone dac/amp, they might fill the niche that LG left behind.
Some audiophiles buy old LG phones and low tier, overpriced "audiophile" devices with SD665s just so they can use their wired gear.
If ZTE equips this one with a decent dac (ESS and Cirrus Logic dacs are not expensive), and a reasonably powerful amp, this gimmick device might capture a niche market.
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- 01 Mar 2024
I see ZTE is offering new things every year like UD camera, chep flip now but problem is availability and low recognizable brand among masses.
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- 01 Mar 2024
Nubia fanboism, 01 Mar 2024Here we go again for those "Unisoc bad bla bla bla&quo... moreIt's less so that, than the fact that Snapdragon 855 is still potentially not enough for a gaming phone. For that price though, it's still a great deal.
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- 01 Mar 2024
Anonymous, 01 Mar 2024Too long comment, can be shortened into: Paragraph 1: I ... moreThat's a pretty good summary, but I do still like all of the phones since they all provide good niches.
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- 01 Mar 2024
Anonymous, 01 Mar 2024*gsmarena uploads article about some chinese phone* Chin... moreYour comment makes 0 sense
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- 01 Mar 2024
Here we go again for those "Unisoc bad bla bla bla". Have you ever used a Unisoc device?
The Unisoc T820 and T760 offers the same CPU configuration with Snapdragon 855. It has:
1x A76 + 3x A76 + 4x A55
How's that bad? I have a Nubia Neo 5G, and can run even run Pokemon Sword in yuzu which Helio G99 devices can't. Thermals are very good too.
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- 01 Mar 2024
Darth Caesium, 29 Feb 2024A54 is literally not even better than the A52s, that's... moreBlame their decision to keep Exynos then.
Though lately they have been made some advance with their chipset (too bad atm it is their flagship one (midrange still potato I think), and that still lacks in connectivity dept).
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- 01 Mar 2024
ZTE Nubia Flip looks like a washing machine lol
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- 01 Mar 2024
Darth Caesium, 29 Feb 2024All of these are cool IMO. The ZTE nubia Music is perhaps t... moreToo long comment, can be shortened into:
Paragraph 1: I like phone with headphone jack.
Paragraph 2: The Flip has terrible Snapdragon 7 gen 1 chip.
Paragraph 3: Neo 2 has terrible Unisoc chip.
Paragraph 4: ZTE has terrible software support.
Conclusion:
ZTE maybe good for some people, but it is terrible phone compared to other competitor.
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- 01 Mar 2024
DarlingYext, 29 Feb 2024Galaxy A54.*gsmarena uploads article about some chinese phone*
Chinese phone user:
"Sorry.. we only mention popular Samsung brand here. Chinese phone maybe good, but nobody buys it.. also we hate Samsung."